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Driving pleasure will be virtual reality, fiction or real, in your xportation pod. It's going to be all about you, the vehicle unfelt.

I tell you now, the days of no end to grip, lively competition among race part manufacturers, and in fact interest in traditional street performance are ending. Along with highway patrols, vehicle collisions/injuries, and shadetree maintenance. I shall grieve in the passing.

The new paradigm: AI, sweetness of ride, irregularity isolation, and silence, will be gold standards. Ferrari is dead. Long live Ferrari.

Nope. Cheap for a parking garage demo, as opposed to a car that can intelligently navigate, absolutely. Cheap to cover and maintain the US infrastructure, or the WORLD's infrastructure? Not a chance. Given all of the research going into self navigating cars by large players, it will happen. The DARPA sponsored competition alone has produced great results. Either way, cars will self navigate in the future and it won't be relying on a bunch of sensors covering every road on the planet.

Nope. Cheap for a parking garage demo, as opposed to a car that can intelligently navigate, absolutely. Cheap to cover and maintain the US infrastructure, or the WORLD's infrastructure? Not a chance. Given all of the research going into self navigating cars by large players, it will happen. The DARPA sponsored competition alone has produced great results. Either way, cars will self navigate in the future and it won't be relying on a bunch of sensors covering every road on the planet.

Far less expensive than we might imagine. $0.15 RFID chips glued or embedded every so often. Dang things can be printed.

And now that $1.50 wholly contained radar on a chip's been developed, much can change.....looking forward t'scoring those myself!